What’s missing from the menu: bringing Blackfella foods and conversation to the table

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Thursday 20 April 2017

When you sit down for a meal, does your plate feature wattle seeds, desert limes, or honey ants? Some of these ingredients are being embraced in modern restaurants, however the use of these unique Australian ingredients in our homes is rare.

Up to 5,000 Indigenous food species were originally utilised by Australia's first peoples; almost 20 per cent of Australian flora and fauna. Why don’t we embrace these ingredients on our supermarket shelves and in our kitchens?

This panel discussion brings together writers, researchers and restaurateurs to explore the cultivation of Blackfella foods, the richness of produce and traditional knowledge, and why they’re missing from our everyday menus.

About the Game Changers Conversation Series

It is a project of the Footscray University Town initiative – a partnership between Maribyrnong City Council and Victoria University that sees education, jobs, creativity and opportunity at the heart of the future of Footscray.

Victoria University acknowledges, recognises and respects the Ancestors, Elders and families of the Boonwurrung, Waddawurrung and Wurundjeri of the Kulin who are the traditional owners of University land in Victoria, and the Gadigal and Guring-gai of the Eora Nation who are the traditional owners of University land in Sydney.